Is Monogamy Dead? An Author Special with Comedian Rosie Wilby

The High Low

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The High Low is on holiday this week, so we have recorded an author special for you - because we're nice like that. Is Monogamy Dead? by British comedian Rosie Wilby came out in August 2017 and from learning about romantic footprints to the difference between polyamory and non-monogamy (and did you know what 'compersian' is?) it's a funny, gentle, explorative and educational look into the Western concept of monogamy - and whether it still works. The audiobook is available on Audible here:https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Health-Personal-Development/Is-Monogamy-Dead-Audiobook/B06ZYJ4ZCV/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_srTtl?qid=1506615053&sr=1-2 You can follow Rosie on Twitter and Facebook @rosiewilby.You can get in touch with The High Low @thehighlowshow on Twitter or email us thehighlowshow@gmail.com. Thank you to Wardour Studios for the recording session. See you next week!

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 27 of The Highloat, the news and pop culture podcast brought to you
0:21.0	weekly by journalist Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.
0:25.4	Welcome to our third author special. Some of you may remember the jolly old chats we've had with
0:31.3	journalist and author of the party Elizabeth Day and Rennie Edo Lodge and we're back in the
0:37.4	studio today with comedian Rosie Wilby who has written a book called Is Monogamy Dead which came out in August.
0:44.1	Rosie started writing the book in 2013 after she found herself questioning everything we
0:50.4	talked about Monogamy in Western society. Welcome to the studio Rosie. Hi lovely to be here. I'm just
0:57.2	so the readers can get into the meat of your book right away and your beautifully unique voice. We
1:04.5	thought we might kick off with a reading from you. Okay then and you particularly wanted this one.
1:10.0	Yes I did request this segment. Okay then. I'd been too much of a manogamous
1:15.8	prude to realise but lesbians are sometimes allowed to have casual sex once every two months
1:22.4	apparently because that's how frequently the locker room a gay sauna just off South London's
1:27.2	leafy and affluent Cleaver Square is hijacked by the women. Now that I was writing a show on sex
1:32.8	and fidelity I could visit under the comforting guys of research. I'd been told tales while
1:38.8	the excess about what went on there behind the clouds of steam and sweat by gay male friends
1:43.6	would women behave with similar animalistic abandon. I heard about the sporadic women's event
1:48.8	through my friend Bell who described herself as solo poly and explained this as engaging in
1:54.0	multiple ethically non-exclusive relationships while abandoning the hierarchical structure of a
1:59.2	primary relationship. To her, a lesbian sorn was no big deal. She had nobody to report her whereabouts
2:05.2	to and the partner she was with would totally get it anyway. Whereas to me it's very existence was
2:10.2	a beak neon sign informing me just what a clueless close-minded idiot I was. Bell and I agreed
2:16.0	not to cramp on another style I would leave her to her own devices or vices. Yet if I was in any way
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